Robert Enright is a Canadian journalist, art critic, and academic. He is the founder and senior contributing editor at ''

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Career

Enright attended the University of Saskatchewan, in Saskatoon, from 1967 to 1971 as an undergraduate in the Department of English where he received a BA (Hons.). He then attended the Doctoral Program at the University of Manitoba. In 1976, he was one of the founders of literary publisher

Turnstone Press Turnstone Press is a Canadian literary publisher founded in 1976 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, the oldest in Manitoba and among the most respected independent publishers in Canada. Turnstone was founded in 1976 by academics David Arnason, John Beaver, D ...

. From 1988 to 1992 he was a member of the Board of Directors for the Western Magazine Awards Foundation, as well as a Member of the Canada Council Advisory Panel on Book and Periodical Publishing from 1990 to 1992. Along with spending 25 years as an art critic for CBC, he has also contributed to ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', frieze and The Globe & Mail. For his work he received nominations and medals at the

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, and at the Western Magazine Awards. He has contributed introductions, essays, interviews and articles to over 300 art catalogues and books on contemporary artists. While working for

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for 25 years he started the magazine ''Border Crossings'' with

Meeka Walsh Meeka Walsh is a Canadian writer, art critic, and curator. She is the editor of ''Border Crossings''. An author of short stories and essays, Walsh was included in the ''Oxford Anthology of Canadian Women Writers''. She was from 2002 to 2005 a trus ...

and has this to say on the topic: "I've always been a border crosser, and the magazine was based on the premise that artists never looked at only one thing."Robert Enright. "Their Winnipeg: Pages from a Magazine's History." BorderCrossings Study Centre (2009). 23 Jun 2010

/ref> In 2005 he was named a Member of the

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, in 2012 he was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal, and in 2015 he was awarded a Doctorate of Letters from the University of Winnipeg. He is the Research Professor in Art Theory and Criticism in the School of Fine Art and Music at the

University of Guelph The University of Guelph (abbreviated U of G) is a comprehensive Public university, public research university in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. It was established in 1964 after the amalgamation of Ontario Agricultural College (1874), the MacDonald I ...

."In conversation: Meeka Walsh and Robert Enright". Mendel Art Gallery (2015). 15 Mar 2015.

References

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